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A big rise in the number of sanction referrals handed out by jobcentres and other advisors means more jobseekers have moved into destitution.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today released figures for sanctions - the act of removing benefits for a perceived offence - showing more have had money removed than ever before.
In 2011 - itself a record year - 1.34 million sanctions were handed out.
The government has lost the Poundland case for a second time as the UK's supreme court threw out its appeal - but appeared not to know it had happened.
The case concerned forced work experience and was brought by Cait Reilly, a graduate who claimed she had been unlawfully made to work in the budget high street chain.
Reilly believed her human rights had been breached, but the original ruling did not support this.
Jobseekers are hurting their chances of getting work through common CV mistakes.
According to new research by the National Careers Service, two-thirds of careers advisors reported that sending general rather than tailored CVs was a major issue and could lead to applicants not getting a job.
More than 60% said spelling mistakes were common, while three-quarters pointed to a failure to highlight strengths as being a key error.
Two-thirds said CVs were often the wrong length, but a third of jobseekers said they did not believe they had ever made a mistake on their CVs.
A jobless man who listed himself on online auction site ebay with a starting price of 99p has attracted no bids.
Following other resourceful jobseekers' leads, including standing on the side of the road with a sandwich board and handing out a CV to every business in a town, Steve Sewell from Barrow-in-Furness tried to drum up interest in hiring him having found it difficult to get work after losing his job.
MPs are to get a 10% pay rise of over £6,000 at a time when they have capped benefit rises to 1% over the next three years.
The inflation-busting increase - prices are only rising by 2.7% each year - means politicians will get a higher rise than the total a Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claimant gets in a year.
JSA pays £71.70 per week, or £3,728.40 each year, not much more than half of the MP's rise.
The Work Programme is failing in its attempts to support homeless people into work.
That is the stark warning from Peter Watson, a former drug addict and homeless man interviewed in today's Guardian.
Having cleaned up after two decades, he was put on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), recognising that he had barriers to overcome before he would be ready for work.
Dole Animators, a group of unemployed people, is making a film on benefits cuts.
The group has its origins in a research project at Leeds University, through which fifteen workless people were interviewed about their experiences of life on the dole.
Having formed relationships with each other and researchers, they decided they wanted to take things further and make a film about life within a tightening benefits system, with student animators bringing their words to life.
The online personality test for jobseekers UnemployedNet reported on last week has come in for more criticism from those who invented it.
The test, titled 'My Strengths', is the brainchild of the Prime Minister's 'nudge unit', which aims to make changes in people's behaviour.
Jobseekers are being made to undertake dubious online personality tests by their jobcentres, The Guardian is reporting.
Their advisors are threatening to remove benefits if they do not do so, even though the results of the tests are not always linked to inputs.
